P2P Projects

DME for Peace, a project of Search for Common Ground, the Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium (PEC), in partnership with EvalPartners and IOCE, hosted a webinar consultation on Wednesday, May 2nd at 10:00 am EDT, as panelists from IRI, USAID-DCHA/DRG, New Rule, Social Impact, and US Department of State - DRL lead a discussion on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Programming, Evaluation, and Policy. The PEC is a consortium led by Alliance for Peacebuilding in partnership with CDA Collaborative Learning, Mercy Corps, and Search for Common Ground.

This webinar is part of a wider consultation to support the Peer-to-Peer grant mechanism which is one of EvalPartners' tools to support VOPEs across the Global South.

Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance encompasses a wide array of programming and a multitude of methods to evaluate and learn from these key programs. This panel will present evidence from the field on clarifying what DRG programming looks like, how implementers and professional evaluators have attempted to monitor and evaluate it, and finally how we can take DRG evidence and translate it into policy work and to promote effective evidence-based decision making. Below is a list of the speakers and their presentations:

International Republican Institute: M&E Program Leads from Morocco & Tunisia

Topic: Examples from the field on DRG programming and local evaluation.

Topic: Global level learnings and best practices for DRG Programming, experience from IRI’s multiple country programs.

USAID : Senior Learning Advisor for DCHA/DRG/L Laura Adams

Topic: Presentation on high level country metrics as part of USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance. Focused on how paying attention to these data sources is helping 5-year programming and higher-level policy thinking on what actions are moving the needle and which are not.

New Rule: Senior Technical Director Kyra Buchko

Topic: Presentation on external evaluation findings of a Bangladesh project to present key learnings, local approaches to M&E, and experience on methodological approaches to measure DRG programming.

Topic: It’s possible to measure complex DRG programming! Experience on methodological approaches used to measure a civil society and media strengthening exercise in Liberia, including through media content analysis, organizational capacity assessments, most significant change, and social network analysis.

Department of State – DRL: Evaluation Specialist Giovanni Dazzo

Topic: How you take evidence and translate it within DoS work. How do we give value to this data and promote effective evidence-based decision making?

Peer-to-Peer Grants Program

2016-2017

EvalPartners held an open Call inviting Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs) to apply for Peer to Peer grants for implementation of partnership projects jointly developed by at least two VOPEs. The idea was to encourage two or more VOPEs to form mutually beneficial partnerships with each other to promoted shared advice and learning.

Through this Call, a total of 33 applications were received involving 63 VOPEs distributed regionally across these countries:

Cameroon and Tchad

Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan

$14,000

Empowering Young and Emerging Evaluators in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA EvalYouth)

Peru and Ecuador

$9,000

Strengthening the institutional capacity of the Andean VOPEs (Ecuador, and Peru) on new evaluation approaches considering youth, gender, cultural diversity, ethnic groups and ecological sustainability, in order to promote the culture of evaluation

Sénégal, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti and Quebec

$15,000

Innovation to strengthen institutional and individual evaluation capacities in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Djibouti, primarily through Young and Emerging Evaluator (YEE) & Associations

Small Grants Program (2015-2016)

The second round of P2P projects (Small Grants Program) supported eight projects in 2015-2016, and more information about this can be found here. This Small Grants Program aimed to support the launch of the Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020. The program supported projects that contributed to six thematic areas as well as to three major components of evaluation capacity: individual capacity, VOPE capacity and enabling environment. These projects also contributed to 18 outcome subareas:

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